Art
- Designing a World of Robot Fighters: the Concept Art of Real Steel
- Homemade Halloween decorations
- Steve Jobs Portrait
- Super Mario Wedding Cake
- The Video Games of Today Reimagined in vintage 8-Bit and 16-Bit pixels.
Comics
Cross-Media
- 7 Teen Monsters That Aren’t Totally Lame
- Horror’s Greatest Heroes: the 10 Best Monster-Fighters!
- Sci-Fi and Fantasy Characters Who Lost Their Mystery (but Stayed Cool)
- SFx names the Top 25 Sci-Fantasy Icons Of The 21st Century
Film
- Interview: ‘Real Steel’ director: Hugh Jackman offered warmth amid the metal
- News: The fully restored and digitally enhanced version of the Lucio Fulci classic film Zombie will be hitting theaters October 21 through 22!
- News: ‘Strange’ Domain Registrations May Point to Next Marvel Studios Project
- 10 Movies That Should Be In Theaters All The Time
Internet
- Buying up every paper to conceal story does not work in Internet age
- Corgis are ‘the new cats’ of Internet culture, in case you were wondering.
- ‘I may have been wrong about Twitter,’ writes Ricky Gervais
Literature
- Event: Join @simonschuster for a Live Twitter Chat with Ashes of a Black Frost author Chris Evans (@CEvans_Author) Thursday, October 13th, Noon-4pm EST
- Interview: The Agony Column profiles Neal Stephenson
- Interview: Omnivoracious interviews Cherie Priest, author of Ganymede
- Interview: Peter Orullian talks to George R.R. Martin about what comes next.
- Interview: R.A. Salvatore plugs his new book Neverwinter: Neverwinter Saga, Book II, in interviews with Apex Magazine, Grasping for the Wind, Reading Review, and Unwinnable
- Interview: Sci-Fi-London interviews Kevin J. Anderson
- Interview: Steampunk! Blog Tour: A Chat With Kelly Link & Gavin Grant
- Interview: T.C. McCarthy talks sci-fi trench warfare in Germline.
- Interview: Tor.com interviews Laini Taylor of Daughter of Smoke and Bone
- 20 American Poems Every Student Should Know
- Margaret Atwood defines science fiction: “Is [the term science fiction] a corral with real fences that separate what is clearly ‘science fiction’ from what is not, or is it merely a shelving aid, there to help workers in bookstores place the book in a semi-accurate or at least lucrative way? If you put skin-tight black or silver clothing on a book cover along with some jetlike flames and/or colourful planets, does that make the work ‘science fiction’? What about dragons and manticores, or backgrounds that contain volcanoes or atomic clouds, or plants with tentacles, or landscapes reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch? Does there have to be any actual science in such a book, or is the skin-tight clothing enough? These seemed to me to be open questions.”
- Stina Leicht on The Prevalence of Dark YA Fiction
- Supreme Court hears important public domain case: Can Congress remove works from the public domain? Reformers want to remove thousands of works by foreign authors from the public domain in order to “harmonize” US copyright law with international copyright standards.
- What would a free Kindle do to the e-book market?
Science
Technology
- Body suit may soon enable the paralyzed to walk. “In a busy lab at Duke University, Dr. Miguel Nicolelis is merging brain science with engineering in a bid to create something fantastical: a full-body prosthetic device that would allow those immobilized by injury to walk again. On Wednesday, Nicolelis and an international group of collaborators declared that they had cleared a key hurdle on the path toward that goal, demonstrating they could bypass the body’s complex network of nerve endings and supply the sensation of touch directly to the brains of monkeys.”
Television
- Interview: Q&A with AMERICAN HORROR STORY Executive Producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk
- News: ABC commits to a pilot written by Seth Green and others. It is described as a “Sci-Fi White House Drama”
- News: X-Men Movie Writers Working On New TV Series: Ashley Miller and Zack Stenz, who wrote the screenplay for X-Men First Class, are currently working on a new Fox series based on the novel The Magicians, which has been described as “Harry Potter for adults.
- 10 TV universes you would and wouldn’t want to live in./li>
- Buffy, Chuck and 49 other Halloween episodes of sci-fi TV shows
- Doctor Who scene deleted because Moffat thought it ‘too naughty’
- Fox Has 750 Million Reasons ($) to Cancel ‘The Simpsons’
Video Games
- Game expenditures are up 1% this year
- Game-obsessed: U.S. cities that spend the most on video games : Bundle
